The last time I attended SXSW I was a teenager, enthralled with the punk beats of the Dirty Rotten Imbeciles and Suicidal Tendencies. In 2016, instead of prepping my body for the rigors of a mosh pit, I traveled to […]
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Darlingside, the rapidly emerging indy folk band, is still “killing its darlings.” According to band member Dave Senft, that means jettisoning favorite lyrics and musical ideas in order to get better ones. And, it appears to be working. Winner of […]
Darlingside’s members hover loosely around a copper-colored disk poised mid-air center stage with their instruments in hand and voices ready for take-off. Once in the air, they become downright cinematic, as their work has been described. That cinematic quality was […]
Corb Lund is not only a Canadian treasure, he is a musical treasure for the world to enjoy. On a warm April evening in Nashville, Corb Lund took the stage backed by a trio of players who’ve been with him […]
Here’s a Radio Friendly first: two brothers who share a radio show, “Tangled Roots” on WHUS, and we get answers from both of them. Bill Frater: Where and when did you start in radio and what other stations have you worked at […]
When I was a kid, the place was called Spec’s Music — a chain store that sat at the far corner of a WalMart shopping center. My development as a musician and music fan could be traced by the albums […]
When an artist releases an album that really resonates with a wide swath of people, it can be a challenge to match that kind of momentum with a follow-up. In a way, it’s unfair to compare one album with another; […]
Diane Coffee is the alter-ego of songwriter/musician/actor Shaun Fleming. And if there’s anything Shaun can’t do, we haven’t seen it yet. The songwriter and multi-instrumentalist has penned two full-length albums under this moniker and has been touring relentlessly since the […]
“You can’t always get what you want But if you try sometimes you just might find You just might find You get what you need” —The Rolling Stones in Havana on March 25 Change is slowly coming to Cuba. And […]
Is there a reason we need another long, exhaustive — and exhausting — biography of any of the Beatles? Don’t we likely know most of what we’re going to know about the four lads from Liverpool? These days, is their […]
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